Introduction to natural science and its methods for non-science majors. Focuses on women's participation in both the formation of scientific concepts and the development of methodology. Modern concepts of science and mathematics with an emphasis on women's contributions to these fields will be presented. Also offers a feminist critique of the traditional methods of science.

Through critical analysis, this course will examine the impact that categories of difference have on our lives, the history of discrimination in society, and how systems of inequality are maintained and perpetuated.

This course uses Hiphop as a medium to explore identity narratives in U.S. culture. It is not a chronological history nor an exhaustive study of Hiphop culture, but a practical use of Hiphop as a tool to access multiple dramas in converging identity developments across the United States with global effects.

This course explores the fictional and biographical narratives of black women writers around the globe for intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion and other positionalities in their socially and historically contextualized experiences.